So, but that Basil King has brain
And uses it when he is writing,
The book (from Methuen) might contain
Little that's novel or inviting.
Yet it's so good it's doomed to miss,
I rather fear, the approbation
Of folk who hope such books as this
May help the cause of reformation;
For, if divorce in U.S.A.
Inspires such work, it stands to reason